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    X-Wing Rocketry

    http://www.polecataerospace.com/X-Wing.htm

    http://i21.tinypic.com/2elrsie.jpg

    Launch date is this friday. Should be spectacular, success or not. Their launch event is in the middle of nowhere near the Cali/Mexico border if anybody lives near there (east of San Diego).

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    Re: X-Wing Rocketry

    Totally didn't expect the "engineers" to look like them.

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    Re: X-Wing Rocketry

    Quote Originally Posted by Correction
    http://www.polecataerospace.com/X-Wing.htm

    http://i21.tinypic.com/2elrsie.jpg

    Launch date is this friday. Should be spectacular, success or not. Their launch event is in the middle of nowhere near the Cali/Mexico border if anybody lives near there (east of San Diego).
    No one lives in Plaster City except illegals.

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    Re: X-Wing Rocketry

    Quote Originally Posted by skurlover
    Totally didn't expect the "engineers" to look like them.
    rofl same

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    Re: X-Wing Rocketry

    I'd be the test pilot in that thing-I don't care how unsafe it is. Dream come true ; ;

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    Re: X-Wing Rocketry

    Haha, that's pretty badass.

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    Re: X-Wing Rocketry

    Now off to the local park for some pictures. We didn't attract any attention on the road. None at all.....

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    Re: X-Wing Rocketry

    is someone actually gonna get inside that thing, or is it gonna be totally remote controlled? It doesn't say anything in that article about the launch.

    Also, it looks badass as all hell, but it's made of wood planks and glued together, how do they really expect it to hold together under the thrust of a rocket engine. It's more likely to get torn apart under the force of the engine.

    In any case, I hope it does fly, that'd be cool as hell. follow with this and post the article of after the launch.

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    Re: X-Wing Rocketry

    I know everyone is engaged in the adv forums lulz,

    But here are some also amazing lulz, I called it!

    http://break.com/index/x-wing-model-launch-fails.html

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    Re: X-Wing Rocketry

    lol @ the announcer, "O shi-" as it cuts away to slowmotion

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    Re: X-Wing Rocketry

    I love how most of the people still continued to cheer after it broke apart.
    How long until someone cuts in the 'Imperial March' Theme to that video.

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    Re: X-Wing Rocketry

    Quick. Someone cut in with Anakin's NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO at the end when it breaks apart.

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    Re: X-Wing Rocketry

    awe... it just broke apart. i was expecting it to do a nose plant and have the rockets shoot off in random directions after the crash.

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    Re: X-Wing Rocketry

    Physics wins again. They should at least have put more stabilization on it beyond those wooden wings :D

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    Re: X-Wing Rocketry

    That was full of win, even when it broke apart.

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    Re: X-Wing Rocketry

    Quote Originally Posted by Correction
    Physics wins again. They should at least have put more stabilization on it beyond those wooden wings :D
    Yeah, looking at the pics, the wings just seemed to be barely on there, other than that, it woulda been nifty.

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    Re: X-Wing Rocketry

    Wow, you'd think someone would have mentioned something about it being made out of wood.... and, you know... rockets.

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    Re: X-Wing Rocketry

    That's what they get for trying to take off with the S-Foils locked open instead of closed.

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    Re: X-Wing Rocketry

    Sorry, for bumping this, but I thought that people should know what really happened:

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a8d_1192187599

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    Re: X-Wing Rocketry

    Quote Originally Posted by Viena
    Sorry, for bumping this, but I thought that people should know what really happened:

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a8d_1192187599
    lol, that's forgiving of a necro bump

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